The 2024 ITTF Macau World Cup entered the last match day of the group stage, and the national table tennis players played strongly as a whole, especially in the men's singles competition, the three main national table tennis players Wang Chuqin, Ma Long and Lin Gaoyuan all swept their opponents after hitting 4-0 in the game to advance to the top 16 of men's singles. Wang Chuqin and Lin Gaoyuan, who were forced to draw in the first game, broke out in this round of games, Wang Chuqin swept Kazakhstan's Glasmenko 4-0 in four straight games, and advanced to the men's singles knockout round with one win and one draw in the group stage, and the controversial player Lin Gaoyuan also refused to be upset in the game with the world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan, he beat the opponent with a total score of 4-0 in four cities, and also won one win and one draw in the group stage to advance to the round of 16, Grand Slam winner Ma Long continued the first round of hot hands, following the first game 4-0, he won four games in a row to defeat Li Yuanzhang 4-0 in the second round, and advanced to the knockout round with two wins in the group stage。
National table tennis controversy player Lin Gaoyuan played the second game against Chinese Taipei world champion Zhuang Zhiyuan, Lin Gaoyuan won the first game and then drew 2-2 by Pucar, and the qualifying situation was grim. As one of the five main forces of national table tennis, Lin Gaoyuan has been in controversy, the main reason is that he often drops the chain in key games, after the first game was forced to draw, the outside world criticized Lin Gaoyuan again, but in the second game, Lin Gaoyuan broke out completely, and he won four games in a row and swept the opponent. In the first game, Lin Gaoyuan quickly entered the state, scoring consecutive points at the beginning to open the score and easily won the first game 11-4, and in the second game, Lin Gaoyuan was like a rainbow, and Zhuang Zhiyuan's morale was even lower in the second game after the fiasco in the first game, Lin Gaoyuan took a greater advantage of 11-3 and took the next city, leading 2-0. In the next two games, Zhuang Zhiyuan's state rebounded, but Lin Gaoyuan still took the initiative on the court, and he won two more games 11-7, 12-10, defeating Zhuang Zhiyuan with a total score of 4-0 and advancing to the round of 16 with the first place in the group.
The world's No. 1 Wang Chuqin also won two games in the first round of the group stage and was forced to draw by South Korean star Ahn Jae-hyun after losing two games in a row, and the promotion situation is also not optimistic, but as the current men's singles world No. 1, Wang Chuqin's strength is undoubted, and the first unexpected cup draw did not hinder Wang Chuqin's progress. In the second match, Wang Chuqin's opponent was the strong Kazakh player Glasmenko, who had defeated many national table tennis players, and this year he also won all the team competitions at the World Table Tennis Championships, with a strong impact. In the first half of the game, the two sides competed fiercely, Wang Chuqin, who was a little more skilled, gradually took the initiative on the court in the middle game, he won 11-7 to take the lead, and the two sides played inextricably in the second game, Glasmenko created a lot of trouble for Wang Chuqin, but Wang Chuqin played the key points and then took the next city 12-10, leading 2-0. The world No. 1 didn't give his opponent much chance in the next two games, and he won two games in a row 11-2, 11-5, and defeated his opponent 4-0 on aggregate to advance to the men's singles knockout round.
Grand Slam winner Ma Long's second-round opponent was Canada's Li Yuanzhang, and Ma Long was in good form in the first game, defeating Australia's Saleen in straight games to get off to a good start. Ma Long played more easily in the game with Li Yuanzhang, as the favorite to win the World Cup, Ma Long's comprehensive strength is far better than Li Yuanzhang's, and it is not difficult to win, mainly depending on how Ma Long's state is adjusted. The first game of the two sides of the competition is relatively fierce, Ma Long was tied after the lead, at the end of the game Ma Long to 11-8 to win a game to take the lead, the second game of Ma Long gradually revealed the Olympic champion style, he played a good start soon after the score and 11 to 4 disparity in the score and then the next city, the third game Ma Long did not give the opponent any chance to overtake after the start of the game 4-1, there is a gap in the comprehensive strength of the two sides, Ma Long won 11-5 without much effort, the fourth game Ma Long won 11-4, the total score was 4-0 to defeat Li Yuanzhang, the group stage did not lose a game and won eight games in a row to advance to the top 16 of men's singles。